Substitute Teacher

Teaching Personnel work in partnership with a secondary school, located in Gosport, who are dedicated to providing quality education and fostering a supportive environment for its students.

The school has several positive aspects, including a calm and inclusive culture underpinned by mutual respect and trust, pupils enjoy positive relationships with staff and each other, and the school is committed to helping all students achieve highly, including in examinations.

The school is working on improving its curriculum and teaching methods to better support students' learning and achievement over time

Teaching Personnel are working with the school to find suitable educators to assist with cover during periods of staff absence.  This role would be suitable for early careers teachers who have recently qualified, or teachers with more experience who are looking for extra work alongside a permanent role.  This opportunity would also suit a teacher looking to reduce their workload or working days. 

In joining Teaching Personnel as a substitute teacher, you will be responsible for managing classrooms in Secondary schools on a daily and/or long-term basis. You will be responsible for managing behaviour, delivering pre-planned work, ensuring a positive learning environment is maintained and ensuring all pupils are completing the required work. Ideally, you will regularly be in the same schools which will be based throughout Chichester and the surrounding areas, therefore will build strong working relationships with schools and pupils.   As a substitute teacher with Teaching Personnel, you can reap the benefits such as a flexible, interchangeable weekly diary, an easy approach with app-notified bookings in the mornings as well as prebooked work to help you feel prepared ahead of time, weekly pay every Friday through PAYE, competitive rates of pay and a dedicated personal consultant as your direct contact.

The duties of a substitute teacher can be summarised as:

• Supervising the work that has been set on the lesson plan provided, using the necessary resources that have also been provided.
• Managing the behaviour of pupils in line with the school’s behaviour policy.                                                
• Dealing with any immediate problems or emergencies in line with school policy and procedures.
• Collecting any completed work at the end of the lesson and returning it to the teacher.
• Reporting back as appropriate on any issues that arose during the lesson.

If this role would be of interest, please apply now with your CV. 

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQ’s on the Teaching Personnel website for details.
All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.
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